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Born in 1944 in Dublin, but spending her youth in London and New
York, Eavan Aisling Boland began producing poetry in the 1960s. She gained
greater prominence in the 1980s with works which generated debate over feminism
and the place of the female poet in a largely male field. Boland is known for
placing women within the context of patriarchal Irish traditions and myths.